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Yeah some swedish melodeath like Gates Of Ishtar really brings black and death together and it helps understand why Dissection are sometimes classified the same way

Anyway, @Danic, also check out In Flames - The Jester Race, At the Gates - Slaughter of the Soul, Amon Amarth - With Oden on Our Side, and Carcass - Heartwork for some foundations of the genre.

Gothenburg stuff, real early melodeath, is a lot closer to Dissection, so it kind of makes sense to me now. Bad English has a couple of articles on northern Swedish metal that can point you in that direction.

It took the longest time for me to understand the classification, and I still think they’re clearly more black than death, but it all made sense to me once I started hearing more melodeath from northern Sweden. The opposite of

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I always found it weird that Dissection is labeled as melodeath/meloblack. I don't hear any death metal in their sound. It's not entirely black like Norwegian black, but it's typical Swedish black